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9[[WMG:[[center:[-''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' '''[[Characters/AdventureTime Main Character Index]]'''\
10'''Main Characters''' ([[Characters/AdventureTimeFinn Finn]] | [[Characters/AdventureTimePrincessBubblegum Princess Bubblegum]] | [[Characters/AdventureTimeIceKing Ice King]]) | [[Characters/AdventureTimeAntagonistsAndEnemies Antagonists and Enemies]] ([[Characters/AdventureTimeTheLich The Lich]]) | [[Characters/AdventureTimeLandOfOoo Land of Ooo]] ([[Characters/AdventureTimeCandyKingdom The Candy Kingdom]] | [[Characters/AdventureTimeKingdomsOfOoo Other Kingdoms]]) | [[Characters/AdventureTimeOtherCharacters Other Characters]] | [[Characters/AdventureTimeMultiverse Multiverse Characters]]-]]]]]
11
12The main characters of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''.
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14[[foldercontrol]]
15
16[[folder:Finn the Human]]
17!!Finn Mertens/Finn the Human
18[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/finnthehuman_adventuretime.png]]
19[[caption-width-right:200:''"Mathematical!"'']]
20->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JeremyShada, Creator/JonathanFrakes (adult), Creator/DavidBradley (elderly)
21
22-->''"Is that what you think adventurers do? Die and make all your friends feel terrible 'cause they couldn't save you?!"''
23
24The intrepid human boy and one of the two lead characters of the series. Hyperactive with a love of adventure and good deeds. That thing on his head is actually a hat. Originally 12 years old, he gets older as the series progresses.
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26See his page [[Characters/AdventureTimeFinn here.]]
27[[/folder]]
28
29[[folder:Jake the Dog]]
30!!Jacob "Jake" the Dog, Sr./Jake the Dog
31[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jakes_at_transparent.png]]
32[[caption-width-right:250:"[[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong Fine, it's fine. Everything's gonna be fine. It's fine!]]"]]
33->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnDiMaggio
34
35Finn's chummy, shape-shifting bulldog friend (not pet) and foster-brother. He is more laid back than Finn, but also enjoys adventure. He sometimes gives Finn brotherly advice, but it is not often helpful.
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37* AnimalisticAbomination: While he's introduced as a dog with stretching and shapeshifting powers, his parents were ordinary dogs. It turns out he was spawned from a bump that appeared on his father Joshua's head after he was bitten by a shapeshifting monster.
38* AmbiguouslyBi: While Jake is unambiguously attracted to Lady Rainicorn, more than a few of his comments to guys have hinted at attraction that is more than just platonic, outright declaring love a couple of times such as when he blatantly admits to having a secret crush on Billy and the fact that he occasionally dates Cinnamon Bun while shapeshifting and putting on a bow to be his "girlfriend". There's also his very strong attachment to Prismo, and more than a few comments shared between the two can be seen as romantic crushing or platonic confessions.
39* AmbiguouslyJewish: His picture in the Xmas special suggests this.
40* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Part of what his powers entail, the other being shape-shifting.
41* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: "Power Animal" deals with how this affects Jake; he wants to find Finn, but keeps getting distracted.
42-->'''Jake''': ''(giving his sandwich to BMO)'' Take my sammich, BMO. I'm gonna look for... (looks at the ground, gasps) A dancing bug!
43* BadassAdorable: He's a shape-shifting dog who's super flexible and makes the cutest faces.
44* BetaCouple: Becomes part of one with [[InterspeciesRomance Lady Rainicorn]].
45* BewareTheSillyOnes: He's for the most part a pretty lackadaisical and apathetic guy who likes a great meal, sleeping, jokes, and fun times with his friends and loved ones. He's also a shape-shifting part-alien AnimalisticAbomination and ReformedCriminal who can be insanely dangerous when provoked and has no problems with killing threats. For example, when Finn broke his videogame console as punishment for ignoring training, his response was to declare he was going to break every bone in Finn's body and tried to do just that.
46* BigBrotherInstinct: Played with. He's not as physically protective as most examples of this trope, but he is very tuned into Finn’s emotional well-being, and hurting his little brother’s feelings is the surest way to get on Jake’s bad side. He even claims to have a “Finn sense” that tells him when Finn is about to cry, and the angriest we ever see him is when he’s ripping a new one into Princess Bubblegum for breaking Finn’s heart. The last season even suggests that he denies his own emotional well-being and processing of trauma in order to put on a brave face for Finn and protect him.
47* BigBrotherMentor: Sometimes acts as one to Finn.
48* BigEater: When given a choice of weapons, he chooses sandwich over sword.
49* BigFriendlyDog: [[SizeShifter Sometimes he's big]] but he's always friendly.
50* TheBigGuy: Given that he's a SizeShifter, he definitely qualifies.
51* BigLittleBrother: He might be slightly younger or the same age as Finn (he was a puppy when Finn was a toddler), but he's clearly taken the big brother role, along with being his general protector.
52* BrilliantButLazy: His shapeshifting powers could easily allow him to defeat most enemies if he used them strategically, but he's far too lazy to learn to use them to their fullest.
53* BroughtDownToNormal: Brought on by a witch. Jake turns out to be completely useless without his powers.
54* BrutalHonesty: Jake is not known for his tact or patience so he tends to blurt out whatever he's thinking.
55* BusCrash: It's heavily implied in ''Obsidian'', and later confirmed in the ''Fionna and Cake'' series that he died some time after ''Come Along With Me''. The exact circumstances of his death remain a mystery.
56* CanineCompanion: Or rather, canine best buddy. Do not call him Finn's pet.
57* ChaoticGood: In-universe-assigned alignment in the comic series.
58* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Early episodes painted him as the more NeutralGood reasonable half of the duo, before settling on making him a ChaoticGood JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
59* CloudCuckoolander: He can be fairly odd at times, to say the least.
60* CollectorOfTheStrange: In "The Jiggler" he reveals he has a mint condition eyepatch collection. It's never mentioned again.
61* TheCorrupter: He sometimes tries to convince Finn to commit morally questionable deeds and even murder when it suits him.
62* CovertPervert: It's implied throughout the series that Jake and Lady Rainicorn are a pretty dirty couple when not on-screen. They ran naked together through a farmer's property, and Rainicorn asked him to make a "tape" for her, which he did.
63* DarkAndTroubledPast: In "Apple Thief", Jake says he knows the darker side of the Candy Kingdom. He used to be a criminal who stole purses and hawked stolen bicycles which could explain his actions in "City of Thieves". A later episode actually shows that he was a criminal ''mastermind'' who managed to get out of the business (because he [[HeelRealization realized it was wrong]]).
64* DentedIron: Jake is incredibly powerful when he really gets his mind on something, but as the series progresses his age starts to catch up to him. By the later seasons, Jake is noticeably slowing down and far less capable, and [[spoiler: while he survives the finale, later content strongly implied that he passes away not too long afterward.]]
65* DependingOnTheWriter:
66** Like Finn, Jake's morals can shift from episode to episode, though he's always on the good side of the scale.
67** Similarly, how mature Jake is can really shift from episode to episode, there are times when he seems more worldly and knowledgeable than his brother, and there are times when Jake is ''much'' less mature or reasonable than Finn.
68* {{Deuteragonist}}: It's "Adventure Time with Finn ''and Jake''" after all.
69* DisappearedDad: He has better intentions than most of the ''Adventure Time'' fathers, and he really does love and miss his kids, but "Ocarina" framed this approach as not a good thing.
70** It's implied that since his puppies matured into adulthood faster than he thought they would (to the point that he's actually ''younger'' than them), he's under the impression that they really don't need him anymore; unlike Finn a growing boy who definitely needs him. Or it could be Jake just being Jake.
71* DistaffCounterpart: Cake.
72* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:It's not clear when or how, but Jake passed away some time after the series' end, made apparent by both "Obsidian" and ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTimeFionnaAndCake''.]]
73* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference; Early in ''Adventure Time'', Jake was rather skinny with a square-shaped body, long jowls, and large ears. As the series progressed, he gained weight and a rounder body shape, and his jowls and ears shrunk.
74* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Prismo and Tiffany both seem to really like Jake. There's also the [[StalkerWithACrush bellhop]] in the ''Seeing Red'' graphic novel.
75* EvilLaugh: In "My Two Favorite People", Jake pulls this off surprisingly well.
76* ExoticEyeDesigns: His eyes have black sclera and large white pupils taking up most of the space.
77* ExplosiveBreeder: By the time of Ooo's future, [[spoiler: Jake and Lady's pups have exploded into a gigantic Kingdom called the Pup Kingdom, ruled by Jake's tyrannical immortal GodEmperor grandson, Gibbon. The Kingdom has a space elevator and is implied to have offworld colonies and has totally driven the Candy Kingdom into hiding in the Prizeball Guardians. Finn and Jake's successors Shermy and Princess Beth fight against Gibbon's empire to free the magic stolen from Jake's other descendants.]]
78* FatalFlaw: His inability to pay attention or focus on a task often acts as a hindrance for both himself and Finn, particularly in "Morituri Te Salutamus" and "Power Animal".
79* FemaleFelineMaleMutt: His gender-bent counterpart is a cat.
80* {{Fetish}}: Jake has a weird interest in boots, for some reason.
81** In "Freak City", Jake tells Finn he always wanted to be a big foot, and that Finn will understand [[ParentalBonus when he's older.]]
82** In "Blood Under the Skin" he seemed to really like dressing in lady armor.
83* FurryReminder: Exhibits canine-like behavior once in a while (i. e. barking).
84** In "The Gut Grinder", he admits that he likes to stick his nose in poop due to there being a lot of interesting smells in it.
85* {{Gasshole}}: Often farts and makes fart jokes, usually for fun.
86* GuestFighter: DLC skin for Kor in ''VideoGame/{{Brawlhalla}}''.
87* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Jake appears to be completely naked, [[SubvertedTrope but it's revealed in an episode that he's actually wearing pants.]] Spun by pixies. [[DoubleSubverted They're just invisible.]]
88* HeelFaceTurn: Off-screen one. Jake apparently led a gang of criminals in the past.
89* HeroesPreferSwords: Yes, he has a sword he sometimes uses. [[ShapeshifterWeapon Why he needs it, no one knows.]]
90* HeroicComedicSociopath: Borders on this. Sometimes he's caring, and sometimes he can be quite an asshole, holding off on helping Finn (when he really needs it too) just to suit his own needs (but he usually ends up saving the day). Takes this to eleven in "Furniture and Meat."
91* IdiotBall: While Jake is more or less defined as wise but not smart, there are various episodes where Jake firmly grasps the ball and does extremely impulsive, reckless, or idiotic things without any real explanation given. It seems like he's just dumb, but it is established in the series that he was a successful criminal ''mastermind'' capable of pulling off heists. Though this seems to ensure he doesn't use his StoryBreakerPower to solve the plot.
92* InterspeciesRomance: With Lady Rainicorn. At one point, he's afraid to meet her parents lest they should display FantasticRacism towards him (there was a war between the two species not so long ago), but [[spoiler:it turns out her parents are crazy about dogs since a dog saved her father's life during the war]].
93* IncredibleShrinkingMan: He can shift his size, and is capable of making himself smaller than normal.
94* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The latter part is typically far more obvious than is usual for the trope, but he'll pull out the Jerk occasionally.
95%%* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Sometimes.
96* KryptoniteFactor: Belly-rubs. They render him almost catatonic with pleasure and in extreme cases prone to suggestibility.
97* TheLancer: To Finn, given that he's his best friend and all.
98* LargeHam: He's voiced by Creator/JohnDiMaggio, whose forte is LargeHam characters.
99* LaughingAtYourOwnJokes: He cracks himself up so hard when he teaches a couple of nymphs how to carry a joke, he passes out. However, that last part happens after the scene cuts in the middle of his laughing.
100* LazyBum: He ''is'' BrilliantButLazy, after all. This is most prominent when he doesn't have his powers.
101* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: In contrast to his serious-minded son, Kim Kil Whan.
102* MellowFellow: Every bit as laid back as Finn is HotBlooded, to the point where he accepted his apparently incoming death after his "croak dream". By his own admission, he doesn't care about much of anything and simply takes life as it is. This actually becomes a FatalFlaw in the ''Elements'' arc where his lazy and passive personality becomes so overwhelming he almost lets himself and Finn die. [[spoiler: In "Together Again," it's this generally relaxed attitude and lack of any real desire that causes him to ascend to the 50th Dead World, which is essentially nirvana]].
103* MrImagination: In "Rainy Day Daydream", it manifests as RealityWarper powers. Outside of that episode, it's more subtle, but he often does consult with figments of his imagination, daydream, or otherwise let his [[{{Metaphorgotten}} imagination run away from him]].
104* MundaneUtility: Will use his powers in any way that seems useful.
105* MundaneWish: His first choice will always be a sandwich. It appears this is because the idea of wishing for something important terrifies him. Indeed, when Prismo explains to him how he has to make an important wish and word it just right; because [[TheTimeTravellersDilemma worlds will end, babies won't be born, and life hangs in the balance]], he throws up. Fortunately, Prismo walks him through word by word what he should wish for.
106* TheNapoleon: Small, but very aggressive.
107* NiceGuy: When he's not being a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, he's normally very friendly and easygoing.
108* NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: Margaret isn't his biological mother. Jake was born from a lump on Joshua's head that formed after he was bitten by an EldritchAbomination, and it's highly implied that this is the origin of his strechy powers.
109* NonHumanSidekick: Not actually all that odd, given the setting.
110* NotQuiteBackToNormal: [[spoiler:At the end of the ''Elements'' miniseries, the WorldHealingWave awakens his full alien shapeshifter heritage, though he doesn't seem to initially notice]].
111* NuclearMutant: In the alternate universe featured in "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS5E2JakeTheDog Jake the Dog]]", the radiation of the first Mushroom War bomb turns him into ''the Lich.''
112* OfficialCouple: He and Lady Rainicorn. He's dead set on eventually starting a family with her, and as of "Jake the Dad", the two have kids.
113* OlderSidekick: Finn started the series at 12 years old and Jake is 28 (this is in "magical dog years" though, and it turns out they were actually born around the same time).
114* OneOfTheKids: Somewhat. He's old for a dog, but he acts a lot like the KidHero (eventually childish-acting Teen Hero) Finn.
115* OutOfFocus: As the show delved deeper into other character's relationships, Jake took a noticeable drop in plot importance as the seasons went on, examining less on Jake and more on Finn himself, tellingly, while Finn would have many adventures that didn't involve/focus on Jake despite being present. Most damningly, a lot of the more important characters have some personal connection to Finn, but not so much to his brother.
116* PalsWithJesus: While Prismo falls more into RealityWarper than PhysicalGod, the trope sort of applies. He befriends both Prismo and Cosmic Owl by the end of the Season 5 premiere episode. It benefits Jake greatly because Prismo goes out of his way to help Jake word out his wish to screw the Lich over. He even invites Jake to drop by any time.
117* PapaWolf: He often acts like a father figure to Finn. He is usually very lazy and indifferent about most things, but when something serious happens to his younger companion, you better not be around. He can sense when Finn is about to cry, calling it a "mother-daughter thing" (which is rather ironic, since he and Finn are both male). He's also generally protective of Finn.
118** His TheReasonYouSuckSpeech he made to Princess Bubblegum in "Burning Low":
119--->'''Jake:''' (...) YOU HEARTLESS MONSTER! Do you have any idea how much he's CRIED OVER YOU?! (...)
120** He later tries to be this to his own children, but he ends up veering into being overprotective instead.
121* ParentalNeglect: Played with in an extremely depressing way. Jake is initially a devoted father who gives up adventuring with Finn to be with his family and dotes on the pups to the point of being overprotective. However, being half-Rainicorn, they grow to adulthood within a few days. While this initially comes off as NegativeContinuity, later episodes featuring his family make it clear that the moments we see are the ''only'' moments Jake has spent with his children since their birth, to the point where he hasn't ''spoken'' to two of them. He seems to be under the impression that they don't need him anymore (like real animals are with their young), but some such as Kim Kil Whan are quite resentful of Jake for choosing adventuring over his family. Although "Apple Wedding" suggests that he's depressed that he never got the chance to raise them properly, and the fact that technically they are actually older than him is something he can't cope with.
122* RealMenCook: If there's cooking to be done, he's usually the one to do it. He's also exceptionally talented at it.
123* RealityWarper: Using his imagination. [[ForgotAboutHisPowers Though only for one episode]], and for no explained reason.
124* ReformedCriminal: He once ran a gang of bank robbers who were quite successful when he was younger, but he left the life behind. He pulls his gang back together in "One Last Job".
125* RhymesOnADime: He seems to enjoy a good rhyme. He once forced Finn to communicate via rhyme during "Ocean of Fear".
126* RubberMan: Has stretching powers that could give [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Mr. Fantastic]] a run for his money.
127* RunningOnAllFours: Well, yeah, he's a ''dog''. He usually goes around on his hind legs, but he'll go on all fours if he needs to go fast or if Finn is riding him.
128* SeriousBusiness: Whenever he makes sandwiches, burritos... well, anything with lots of ingredients, let's just say he becomes attached to his creations like an overprotective mom.
129* ShapeshifterBaggage: While Jake sometimes merely stretches or compresses his body, there are also times when he seems to be outright altering his mass. In multiple episodes, he shrinks himself down, which also makes him lighter and easier to carry. The other way around, in "Jake vs. Me-Mow", he counteracts Me-Mow's poison by making his liver larger, which also makes it more effective at filtering toxins.
130* ShapeshifterWeapon: His arms can turn into anything, such as swords, hammers, and even giant weights.
131* ShapeshiftingSound: He makes a sound like rubber stretching whenever he shapeshifts.
132* {{Sizeshifter}}: He has stretching powers and can turn himself bigger or smaller than usual.
133* ShipperOnDeck: Or at least loves to needle Finn about his crush on Princess Bubblegum. He also looked very pleased when Finn and Flame Princess hugged... And he also got quite excited when he thought PB was jealous. Most likely Jake approves of ''any'' sort of relationship Finn has with a girl, so long as Finn's happy with it.
134* TheSlacker: He'd rather go with the flow sometimes.
135* SoreLoser: Well, at least when it comes to Card Wars. He grows out of this in "Daddy-Daughter Card Wars", with the help of his daughter Charlie.
136* SpannerInTheWorks: Jake has trouble sticking to any of Finn's plans.
137* SpiderSense: Jake has the ability to sense when Finn is about to cry.
138* StoryBreakerPower: Many Finn-centric episodes would actually be solved in two seconds by having Jake around, so his BrilliantButLazy personality is used to allow Finn to fly solo and rely on his wits instead, and explain why Jake isn't there ''(to the point where a couple of episodes [[DeusExitMachina actually have Jake shrink down and ride Finn so he can see how it all turns out]].)''
139* SuperpowerfulGenetics: "Joshua and Margaret Investigations" reveals that [[spoiler:he inherited his powers from a monster that implanted an egg sac in Joshua's head.]]
140* SuperStrength: Jake seems to have this as a RequiredSecondaryPower to his stretchy powers.
141* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Ice cream. Also sandwiches.
142* UncertainDoom: Post-main series content strongly implies that Jake passed away not too long after the finale, which is in line with the fact that he was getting on his years by the end of the series. While "Together Again" shows him outright dead, this over 70 years later, at the end of Finn's life as well (and showing more or less the entire mortal cast dead too), leaving it unclear just ''when'' he died. Not helping is "Obsidian" and the ''Fionna and Cake'' series once again very strongly implying that he is gone [[spoiler: by showing both Finn and Prismo deeply grieving]] but never even stated it outright, nevermind explaining if he passed of natural causes or if it was violent.
143* VoluntaryShapeshifting: He can shift when he wants to, but he has a limit that makes him super tired if exceeded.
144* WackyParentSeriousChild: The wacky parent to most of the kids, but especially the very serious Kim Wil Whan. Even T.V. is more grounded than Jake.
145* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He used to have a great fear of vampires, especially Marceline.
146* TheWorfEffect: His powers are extremely versatile, but he's too lazy to use them to their fullest. When facing high-tier threats such as the Lich, he usually gets knocked out pretty quickly.
147* YouCantFightFate: Jake is a ''very'' firm believer in this, to the point where [[spoiler:he repeatedly attempted to rush to his death due to a supposedly prophetic dream he had.]]
148[[/folder]]
149
150[[folder:Princess Bubblegum]]
151!!Princess Bonnibel "Bonnie" Bubblegum/Princess Bubblegum
152[[quoteright:100:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Bubblegum_7328.jpg]]
153[[caption-width-right:100:"Hurry, sweet citizens..."]]
154->'''Voiced by:''' Paige Moss (2006 pilot), Creator/HyndenWalch (the series), Isabella Acres (13 years old; from "Mortal Recoil" until "Too Young"; "Hero Heart" via archived audio), Livvy Stubenrauch (Young; in "Bonnibel Bubblegum")
155
156The young-looking princess and current ruler of the Candy Kingdom. She cares deeply about her citizens. She's also a giant nerd, said to engage in "every branch of geekdom", but not (as far as we can tell) in the CosplayOtakuGirl way-- she's more of a math and science whiz. She's also a hybrid of human DNA and bubblegum DNA (which Finn [[RunningGag finds a-TRACTT-ive~!]]), [[RuleOfCool despite bubblegum not having DNA]], hence her name. She's close friends with Finn, who seems to have a crush on her (however much he [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend tries to deny it]]), but she brusquely [[CelibateHero refuses any romantic advances]]. She finds Jake funny and charming, and has a complicated relationship with Marceline. Although she looks [[{{Pun}} sweet]], and is, in general, rather nice, she is actually quite quick to anger, and her wrath is [[BewareTheNiceOnes best avoided]]. She also speaks German, apparently. The second season reveals her first name is Bonnibel, and her true age has also been revealed: [[spoiler:827]].
157----
158See her page [[Characters/AdventureTimePrincessBubblegum here]].
159[[/folder]]
160
161[[folder:BMO]]
162!!BMO
163[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bmo_7.png]]
164[[caption-width-right:200:"Who wants to play video games?"]]
165->'''Voiced by:''' Niki Yang
166
167BMO, pronounced ''[[FunWithAcronyms Beemo]]'', is Finn and Jake's {{cute|Machines}} {{Animate Inanimate|Object}} VideoGame system. A bit of a rebel and with a tendency to get lost in his imagination, Beemo sometimes enjoys turning up his volume too loud and running out of batteries during a game. Speaks with a Korean accent, and looks like cross between a Platform/GameBoy, Platform/{{Macintosh}} and a Platform/{{Vectrex}}. [[spoiler:Was built by pre-Mushroom War robotics engineer Moseph Maestro Giovanni to be a companion and best friend to the son he never had and eventually sent into the world by said inventor to "Be More" and find a family]].
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169* AdaptationalBadass: Downplayed in the ''Pirates of the Enchiridion'' video game, while BMO's arsenal in that game is best suited for being a SupportPartyMember, she's still tough enough to keep up with Finn, Jake, and Marceline in fighting alongside them, something that would be difficult for them to pull off in the show.
170* AmbiguousGender: Typically referred to as a "he", but was referred to as "M'lady" by Finn in the season 3 premiere. However, he called himself a boy in "Five Short Graybles". And in "Five More Short Graybles" her alter ego claimed to be a "real baby girl". The version of him seen in the Fionna and Cake stories looks ''exactly the same'', so that's no help either.
171** In the ''Pixel Princesses'' comic BMO wishes to become a princess and is eventually made an honorary one -- and the GrandFinale reveals that in the far future [[spoiler: they have become the legendary King of Ooo.]]
172** The [=WonderCon=] Q&A panel confirmed that BMO is genderfluid, and both male and female pronouns apply.
173** In the ''[[TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}} Munchkin Adventure Time]]'' card game, every character has a card with two sides, depicting the normal character and gender-bent Fionna and Cake counterpart (as in ''Munchkin'', your character's STARTING gender is the same as your own). While BMO's card has two sides and two different pictures, no gender can be derived from them, and the card outright states that BMO ignores any gender-related stuff in the game.
174* AnimateInanimateObject: He's a living video game console.
175* BecomeARealBoy: Or he wants to, anyway.
176* BreakoutCharacter: Went from a fairly minor character in the first couple of seasons, to being a main character in his own right with several ADayInTheLimelight episodes.
177* CassandraTruth: When Jake tells BMO not to mention any of his past life of crime to Finn in "One Last Job", BMO manages to forget keeping it a secret from him. Finn dismisses it as BMO being [[CloudCuckooLander over-actively imaginative]] anyway.
178* CharacterDevelopment: While developed initially as a comedic character to play off of Finn and Jake, BMO has grown to be a very complex character, particularly in his ADayInTheLimelight episodes. His association with minor episodic characters is often actions of brutality, love, matronly care, or despair.
179** In "James Baxter the Horse," BMO sings about being pregnant, and carrying around an egg. A butterfly knocks the egg out of BMO's grasp, it shatters on the ground, and BMO starts crying.
180* CharacterizationMarchesOn: BMO was first treated like a sentient video game console that happened to live with Finn and Jake for the sake of entertainment, but as they got extended focus, they essentially were considered to be their own person and Finn and Jake grew extremely attached to them as a result, viewing them as a child.
181* CloudCuckoolander: BMO has a bizarre imagination and can get completely lost in it when left alone.
182* CovertPervert: She watches two slugs make out in "Slow Love".
183* {{Cute Machine|s}}: Lampshaded by Marceline in "Evicted!".
184--> '''Marceline''': "I'm invested in this very cute video game!"
185* ADayInTheLimelight: "BMO Noire", "BMO Lost", "Be More", and "The More You Moe, The Moe You Know"
186* DoAnythingRobot: BMO can serve whatever function is convenient for the plot. For instance, one time he edited and played back a home movie with a custom background song.
187** And sometimes subverted, like the "ghost-detecting machine" in "The Creeps".
188--> '''Bubblegum:''' So, who's the ghost, BMO?
189--> '''BMO:''' Oh, um... I don't have ghost-detecting equipment. I just like taking nice pictures.
190* EatingMachine: BMO's very fond of hot chocolate despite not actually having a mouth. BMO [[SubvertedTrope can't actually eat anything]], but tries anyway.
191* FutureBadass: In the last few episodes it's stated that sometime in the future [[spoiler: BMO becomes a legendary ruler of all of Ooo for a period of time before retiring to live atop a mountain]].
192* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: [[spoiler:Mo built and programmed him to "Be More" then just an average robot]]
193* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: BMO's main purpose is to give love. Most of the time this means that she's not very helpful in a fight. However, [[spoiler: it makes BMO the HopeBringer in the final battle with GOLB, allowing him to turn the tide when virtually every major character was about to perish.]]
194* InformedFlaw: Claims to not have not feel pain or emotions, but very clearly reacts to pain and displays emotions freely.
195* JerkassToOne: While pretty much every character gets along well with BMO, BMO doesn't like NEPTR that much, outright admitting in "Skyhooks" that he does not see him as an equal.
196* MagicFromTechnology or {{Magitek}}: No further explanation is given as to how a video game came to life and gained consciousness, which leads to fan speculation.
197** [[spoiler:Eventually is revealed to be a unique robot built by the MO robotics company programmed to "Be More"]]
198* {{Malaproper}}: Especially in "BMO Noire".
199--> '''BMO''': "I feel like I was hit with a {{Dracula}} by Film/KingKong".
200* MassiveNumberedSiblings: While unique, BMO's creator made a large number of other Mos, who recognize BMO as family.
201* MeaningfulName: Mo revealed BMO is short for Be More.
202* MirrorMonologue: Only in the graybles... usually.
203* MrImagination: Takes it to really bizarre heights.
204* NoBiologicalSex: Since BMO's a robot, he isn't programmed with sex protocols.
205* PapaWolf: [[spoiler: Ultimately, when they turn the tide of the GOLB battle in the finale:]]
206-->'''BMO''': [[spoiler: It's okay, Jake. You always try to protect me and Finn, but sometimes we are going to get hurt. How about today, you let me be the papa?]]
207* PhantomZone: It's only ever been seen in one episode so far.
208* {{Protectorate}}: Jake orders BMO to watch over a distraught Finn while he heads off to the Flame Kingdom. BMO's reacting a little ''too'' enthusiastically is par for the course.
209-->'''BMO:''' If anyone tries to hurt Finn, I will kill them!
210-->'''Jake:''' ...Okay, good.
211* {{Retraux}}: Crosses over into this, as BMO displays pixellated graphics and plays 8-bit music.
212* SplitPersonality: Football [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane may or may not]] be this to BMO.
213* SpoiledBrat: Fitting of his child-like behavior, BMO can act like a rotten child who will cry or freak out because he can't get what he wants. However, this is downplayed, as BMO is mostly well-behaved.
214* TalkingApplianceSidekick: More of a supporting character than "sidekick" but it still counts.
215* TagalongKid: While certainly not a kid in the ''conventional'' sense, he's often treated like a rebellious child by Finn and Jake, particularly in "Slow Love". This may qualify as HypocriticalHumor, given that Finn is a KidHero and Jake acts like OneOfTheKids.
216* TimeAbyss: BMO actually predates the "Mushroom Wars". [[spoiler:By the end of the series, in the Shermy and Beth scenes (set 1000 years in the future), he's the only character we recognize who hasn't changed]].
217* TinMan: In "Donny", BMO states how as a machine she can not feel pain or emotion but states that she very much hates Donny.
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220[[folder:Marceline the Vampire Queen]]
221!!Marceline Abadeer/Marceline the Vampire Queen
222[[quoteright:133:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marceline_the_vampire_queen.png]]
223[[caption-width-right:133:"Dang, man, I didn't think you'd ''ever'' catch on!"]]
224[[caption-width-right:133:[[labelnote:''Click here to see her as a 7-year-old'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marceline_de_nia_7.png[[/labelnote]]]]
225[[caption-width-right:133:[[labelnote:''Click here to see her as Marshmaline the Campfire Queen'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marshmalineelements.png[[/labelnote]]]]
226->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/OliviaOlson, Creator/AvaAcres (Young Marceline, show-only), Audrey Bennett (Young Marceline, "Obsidian")
227
228The queen of the vampires [[spoiler:(by default as she killed all the other vampires, including the king)]]. Known to be extremely unempathetic but never cruel, simply doing whatever she pleases even at the expense of others. Was alive at the time of the apocalyptic 'mushroom war'.
229
230Usually decked out in punk-rock apparel. She generally tries to be cool and rather unfeeling, she harbors a very broken spirit due to loneliness in living forever, among other things. Whenever her more sensitive or emotional side is shown, she gets angry. She and fellow immortal Ice King also share a long and painful history together, and she spends much of her time finding and moving into new houses to avoid him, until the events of "I Remember You".
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232* AbsentAnimalCompanion: Marceline has a pet poodle named Shwabl, who's been her companion since before she was turned into a vampire. The book "The Enchiridion & Marcy's Super Secret Scrapbook" reveals that when she turned, she accidentally sucked the pink out of Shwabl's fur and nearly killed him, but was able to bring him back as a half-ghost thanks to a spell from the Enchiridion. In the show however, Schwabl only appears in the background at her house in a handful of episodes.
233* ActionGirl: She can definitely handle herself in wild situations. Although her lazy side makes it so she doesn't get to show it off much.
234* AffablyEvil: When she was an antagonist (which lasted for about one episode, not counting her trickery in "Henchman"); since then she's settled into a more neutral type of personality with a general LackOfEmpathy, being more Affably Amoral than anything.
235* AffectionateNickname: Finn and Jake sometimes call her "Marcie". Ash calls her "Mar-mar".
236* AllPowerfulBystander: As one of the most powerful creatures in Ooo, she could easily defeat almost any other character in the show, especially if she started eating souls and stealing powers, but she prefers to either stand back and watch, or simply ignore everything. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], As after spending centuries traversing the Land of Ooo, Marceline had become rather cynical and does not believe much will change in the end even if she did help.
237* AlwaysABiggerFish: To the vampires. In a more literal twist on this trope, this isn't due to Marceline being significantly more powerful than the vampires, but because [[IronicDeath she devours them just as they devour humans]], and more effectively for that matter since Marceline devours their entire physical forms and [[CannibalismSuperpower even get their powers.]]
238* AmazonChaser: Shows very obvious signs of attraction to Susan Strong in the Islands mini-series, as well as telling Princess Bubblegum that she "always looks great after fighting monsters" at the end of "Obsidian".
239* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: She used to ''hunt'' vampires, even dedicating herself to wiping them all out, but was turned while taking down the Vampire King and his minions.
240* AntiAntiChrist: It's suggested because her father is evil incarnate and a SatanicArchetype.
241* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Does this all the time, but thus far never in her CuteMonsterGirl look; she prefers scaling herself up into monstrous forms for combat purposes. See OneWingedAngel below.
242* AuthorAvatar: For Rebecca Sugar. She's a bisexual musician with a sensitive and soulful heart.
243* BareMidriffsAreFeminine: In the ''Stakes'' miniseries.
244* BatOutOfHell: Frequently turns into an odd-looking bat when she wants to hide, and she has a [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever giant version]] that she assumed in her first appearance. She also begins transforming into this state when extremely hungry.
245* BettyAndVeronica: She's the chaotic, black-haired Veronica to Finn's sweetheart and blonde Betty for Princess Bubblegum's Archie.
246* BlessedWithSuck: Her regeneration powers are shown in "Simon Petrikov" to make tattoos a difficult prospect, as her skin heals over them.
247* BrokenBird: She's had a ''very'' harsh life, been betrayed by a ''lot'' of people, and scared people away out of fear of it happening again.
248* BroughtDownToBadass: When her vampire essence was removed, she reverted back into a half-demon with soul-stealing abilities.
249* CannibalismSuperpower: She got her [[ComboPlatterPowers wide variety of powers]] by eating the souls of other vampires who previously possessed them.
250* ChaoticNeutral: In-universe-assigned alignment in the comic series.
251* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Goes from being antagonistic to a HeroicNeutral.
252* CombatSadomasochist: A minor case.
253--> "Yeah, it hurts, but I kinda like it. It reminds me of when I'd scrape my knees up as a kid, and my mom would patch me up. You know what I'm sayin'?"
254* ComboPlatterPowers: Has a large and varied set of abilities and an ability to easily get more.
255* CompanionCube: Her childhood teddy bear, Hambo, mainly because it was given to her by her father figure and best friend Simon Petrikov. It was sold to Maja the Sky Witch by her abusive boyfriend Ash, causing them to break up. She reclaims it in the episode "Sky Witch", only to lose it again in an effort to help Simon say goodbye to his lost love in "Betty".
256* ConnectedAllAlong:
257** She was close to the Ice King as a little girl when he was still in mid-transformation as Simon Petrikov; he acted as a father figure to her while journeying in the post-apocalyptic wastes, and he's the one who gave her Hambo.
258** While not outright said in the series, it's heavily implied in various episodes and confirmed by the creators that she and Princess Bubblegum used to date in the past, [[spoiler:and they renew their relationship in the series finale.]]
259** She used to live in the Tree House where Finn and Jake now live. A flashback in the ''Stakes'' miniseries shows that she befriended and protected a group of human survivors who would go on to colonize The Islands, the archipelago where Finn was originally born.
260* ConsistentClothingStyle: She favors a dark, muted color palette (greys, blacks, dark blues, with purples or red accents), denim, and either boots or sneakers.
261* CoolBigSis: She occasionally acts like this toward Finn.
262* CreepyChild: As a child. She once spoke to her teddy bear as she was fixing it: "I'm hurting you because I love you." What really drives it home is that she's completely unfazed by the SceneryGorn that the Mushroom War has brought.
263* CreepyGood: She may be an ally, but Finn and Jake are still terrified of her.
264* CuteLittleFangs: Though it's fairly clear that her entire mouth is full of sharp teeth.
265* CuteMonsterGirl: She's even referred to as "that sexy vampire lady" in her debut episode.
266* DarkIsNotEvil: Sure, she's a Vampire Queen responsible for kicking Finn and Jake out of their house (although she does return it), but for the most part she just wants to jam on her axe and record albums with friends.
267* DaywalkingVampire: Direct sunlight can still burn or even kill Marceline, but things as minor as a shaded hat or sunscreen can protect her. Her HealingFactor can also quickly reverse minor damage from the sun, which isn't surprising considering the vamp she got the power from could totally ''ignore'' sunlight.
268* DefrostingIceQueen: As the series progresses, Marceline becomes more open towards her friends.
269* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
270** In "Evicted!" Marceline is far more antagonistic than the rest of the series paints her out to be, even before she TookALevelInKindness ''or'' TookALevelInJerkass. She willing to ''kill'' Finn and Jake, she fully bites down and nearly drains Jake of all his blood and threatened to do so to Finn moments earlier, and might very well done so had she not changed her mind at the last minute. This level of aggressiveness is shown nowhere else in the show, as even people who did much more to her got off with lesser punishments, even in flashbacks.
271** In the same episode, she both slaps Finn's butt and kisses him on the cheek and causes him to blush, not only does Marceline not do anything like this again and voices a desire of being BetterAsFriends, she's never this openly teasing to either of her on-screen partners who one would think ''would'' get this treatment.
272* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Refer to her page image. And yes, she can get really creepy when she wants.
273* EtTuBrute: Almost everybody Marceline has ever loved has either betrayed her and/or abandoned her. Following her mother's death who she believed abandoned her, she was raised by the Ice King, who became a father figure to her during the early years of the apocalypse, but he too has to abandon her out of fear he's too dangerous and mentally unstable to be around her. After that, communication with her birth father is infrequent and often results in him hurting her feelings. Later, her boyfriend steals and sells her stuffed bear, the only memento she had of her days with Simon. Finally, she had a major and public fallout with Princess Bubblegum while they were dating. As a result, she has a tendency to bottle up her emotions and drive others away before they can get close to her.
274* EvilIsPetty: Kicking Jake and Finn out of their treehouse because it originally belonged to her was ''at the very least'' understandable, her appearing to kick Finn and Jake out of her cave ''just'' as they were settling in was already over the line. Attempting to steal Jake because Finn finds comfort in him and then attempting to kill Finn AND Jake due to stopping her attempted theft? That's truly petty.
275* ExtremelyProtectiveChild: Marceline is quite protective of her ParentalSubstitute Simon Petrikov/Ice King, and he's one of the few characters that can bring out her softer side. In the ''Stakes'' miniseries, the Empress angers Marcy by insulting Simon, and she angrily exclaims "That's the last time you toy with his heart!" before staking the vamp through the heart.
276* FallenHero: The Stakes mini-series reveals her to be this. She used to be as heroic as Finn, and dedicated her life to protecting humanity from the vampires. However, after all the trauma she has experienced (and her immortality making her realize the ciclical nature of history), she has become too jaded to care about other people.
277* FanservicePack: The outfits she wore in the later episodes tended to be a little more revealing.
278* FelonyMisdemeanor: By itself, her dad eating her fries would seem this, but with a little closer look it serves as another indication that her father never took her thoughts or feelings into consideration and that taking something that belonged to her, which at this point happened to be something completely trivial, was the final straw.
279--> (singing) "Daddy, do you even love me? Well, I wish you would show it because I wouldn't know it. What kind of dad eats his daughter's fries, and won't look her in the eyes? There were tears there. If you saw them would you even care?"
280** Then we find out he ate those fries in the aftermath of the apocalypse where Marceline was scrounging around for anything edible. He's a deathless immortal, she was a starving teenager.
281* {{Flight}}: Her most used power. It's fairly rare to see her actually touch the ground.
282* FriendlessBackground: In "Memory of a Memory" we see a flashback of her as a child, describing her stuffed animal Hambo as her only friend; in "Marceline's Closet" she writes a song to the same effect. We later discover that she ''did'' have an IntergenerationalFriendship growing up with Simon, who gave her Hambo, but [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity that didn't end well]].
283* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Depends how she sees you. She can be your best friend or worst enemy.
284* FurAndLoathing: The dress she wears in "Henchman" is made from [[ContinuityNod a Whywolf]]. "Marceline's Closet" shows that she also has a large fur-lined coat, with the head and claws built into it.
285* GiantFlyer: Again, see OneWingedAngel.
286* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: If she doesn't want to kill you with her powers of vampirism, she could use her demonic axe bass.
287* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: PlayedWith. She's the Vampire Queen, and she can be unpleasant but is nice mostly.
288%%* GoodAllAlong: Sort of. (see HeelFaceTurn)
289* GothGirlsKnowMagic: She's a PerkyGoth with a punk rock style, and has supernatural powers as a vampire and demon.
290* HalfHumanHybrid: She's a cambion (half human, half demon) who later became vampirized, giving her a unique set of abilities.
291* HeelFaceTurn: In her original appearance, she comes in the middle of the night and kicks Finn and Jake out of their own house, leaving them out in the open trying to find a place to live. When they finally do find a place, it just so happens to have been Marceline's... and so she almost kills Finn and Jake, but in the end, gives them their house back because she forgot how much she liked the cave. In her second appearance, Finn and Jake still consider her an enemy. Finn unwillingly becomes her accomplice in her many dark deeds that all turn out DoubleSubverted. The last scene shows that Finn and Marceline have gained some trust for each other. In her third appearance, Finn is hanging out at her house playing music with her and they spend the entire episode together, trying to get her soul-sucking father back into the Nightosphere.
292* HeroicNeutral: She's far and away the most powerful ally that Finn and Jake have, but is very difficult to motivate into helping solve a problem due to her general apathy. And in some situations, she's either outclassed by the threat (facing her father) or some supernatural rule prevents her from doing much.
293* HumanDemonHybrid: She is the child of a demon lord and a human woman, who subsequently got turned into a vampire.
294* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Strongly implied. In "What Was Missing", the Door Lord didn't actually steal anything from her, she just wanted to hang out with her friends and gets intensely embarrassed when this is pointed out. In "Memory of A Memory", it's shown that she was a borderline ExtremeDoormat when it came to her abusive boyfriend Ash until he sold her only fond childhood treasure for an entirely pointless reason.
295** If you don't take it as an expression of LesYay, Marceline's song to Bubblegum can be considered an expression of this; she doesn't even remember why Bubblegum is angry at her and feels she shouldn't have to apologize but implies she still wants to.
296** She outright admits that she [[NotSoStoic hides tears]] because she has no friends in "Marceline's Closet". And in "I Remember You", she desperately cries while unsuccessfully trying to make Ice King remember his life as Simon and their old friendship.
297* ImAMonster: The episode "Go With Me" indicated Marceline occasionally feels this way about herself, likely due to her semi-demonic heritage.
298--> '''Marceline: '''Oh, Yeah? No one would want to go to the movies with... (turns into giant tentacle monster) this!
299** This gets further explored in the special "Obsidian", thanks to a series of flashbacks that explain how Marceline came to view herself as a monster. [[spoiler: After using her demonic soul-sucking powers to save her mother from a mutated wolf, she believed that she scared her mother away after she told her to leave (in reality, Marceline's mother tricked her into doing so, so she wouldn't see her dying). During a conversation with her imaginary friends, she convinced herself that, the reason why everyone was afraid of her, was because she wanted them to]].
300* ImmortalImmaturity: She's been around for at least a thousand years, but she's really not too much more mature than Finn himself is. At times, he's even more mature than her. [[spoiler:She acknowledges this in ''Stakes'', and thinks she can only move on with her life if she starts aging, and that sentiment is defied, acknowledging that being immortal had nothing to do with her immaturity, and starts maturing emotionally.]]
301* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Zig-zagged. If she were never bitten, her demon ancestry would have just made her LongLived, with her aging being slowed after hitting adolescence. She only fully ''stopped'' aging when she became a vampire, with the fact that she was physically in her late teens/early twenties at the time just being a coincidence.
302* ImmortalityBisexuality: The series finale reveals that [[spoiler:not only did Marceline and Bubblegum have previous romantic history, but also has them rekindling the relationship.]]
303* ImportantHaircut: Signifying her depression and wanting to grow up, ''Stakes'' cuts her hair short.
304* InstrumentOfMurder: She turned the [[AncestralWeapon family axe]] into a [[InstrumentalWeapon bass guitar]].
305* {{Invisibility}}: Uses it to sneak in on Ice King's Fionna and Cake reading session in "Bad Little Boy", and for cheap laughs in "Heat Signature". (It's apparently a vampire power... but she's in the midst of messing with Finn and Jake when she says so.) Given her personality, it's not surprising that she doesn't use it often.
306* IntergenerationalFriendship: Had one with Simon Petrikov during the aftermath of the Mushroom War. Has one with Finn and Jake.
307* ItAmusedMe: This is her reason for everything she does, {{Jerkass}}y or [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold not]].
308* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
309** Seemed to be a straight-up {{Jerkass}} in her introduction episode (in the "House Hunting" song, she sang that she was "1000 years old and just lost track of her moral code"). "Henchman" would then reveal that she's actually a pretty cool chick who simply enjoys screwing with people but never actually aims to hurt them, and by the end of the episode she and Finn strike up a friendship.
310** By "Heat Signature" even Jake has warmed up to her, with that same episode also providing a good example of this; she pranks Finn and Jake into believing that they're vampires and fools them into doing various embarrassing things, but draws the line at her old ghost gang brutally kicking them for no reason and goes berserk when Finn and Jake are tricked into nearly jumping to their deaths.
311* JustJokingJustification: During her more dickheaded early days in the show, she leads Finn on a massive mind-scarring prank day as her minion. However, he takes it in good stride when he finds out.
312* TheLadette: Clearly demonstrated (in a kid-friendly way) through her willingness to fight everyone and everything, in the same way that Finn does. Not to mention several episodes clearly demonstrate her lack of appreciation for hygiene, whether it be her picking her nose, not washing her hands, or remarking that her armpits stink.
313* LastOfHerKind:
314** Although the non-canon comics show other vampires, the show eventually establishes her as the last vampire on Earth. [[spoiler: It's revealed that she killed all of the others in order to protect what remained of humanity, and the last one made her into a vampire in the instant he was dying.]]
315** For much of the series, Marceline could also be considered the last living member of Pre-Mushroom War Humanity, or at least the only one who actually remembers what humanity was like. Though, [[spoiler: this is Averted after Simon regains his memories and other Pre-Mushroom War humans are brought to Ooo like Betty Grof and Patience St. Pim.]]
316* LeadBassist: Marceline's bass often accompanies her when she sings, making her a Type B.
317* LesbianVampire: While not a lesbian per se (she's actually bisexual), [[spoiler:she ends up in a relationship with PB in the series finale.]]
318* LikeBrotherAndSister: With Finn. "Go With Me" confirms that neither of them has feelings for each other ''that'' way.
319* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Of the two immortal characters, she's the one that has the most fun. [[spoiler:Subverted in ''Stakes'', when she believes her lack of aging is keeping her from solving her personal problems, and tries to get it taken away. She then accepts that her lack of aging is not preventing her from solving her personal problems, and it was her own mentality keeping her from addressing them.]]
320* LongLived: Originally; the Farmworld version reveals that as a half-demon, her lifespan is well over 1000 years naturally, but without the added bonus of vampirism, her body and magic will vastly deteriorate into old age.
321* LooksLikeOrlok: When she gets too hungry, as seen in "Red Starved". She also makes her nose look more bat-like when she wants to pick it.
322* MasterOfNone: In regards to the [[CannibalismSuperpower various vampire abilities she has acquired.]] While Marceline has used all of the powers she's acquired to some degree, she doesn't seem to be capable of some of the more extreme feats that the other vampires displayed, most notably The Moon's NighInvulnerability and [[WeakenedByTheLight sunlight-nullifying]] HealingFactor, or the Vampire King's more impressive [[MindOverMatter telekinetic abilities]].
323* MoralityPet: Even a thousand years later, Simon/Ice King still cares about her, even if he can't remember why, and she's notably one of the few characters he's actually ''cared'' about when he believed they were hurt.
324* MsFanservice: Lampshaded/Discussed in the "House Hunting" song in "Evicted!".
325--> “You know you should have stayed and fought that sexy vampire lady”.
326* MundaneUtility: She uses her powers whenever convenient.
327* {{Necromancer}}: [[MagicalIncantation "Corpses buried in mud that's black, from death I command you to come BACK!"]] She did it to [[MundaneUtility throw a party.]]
328* NightmareFace: Marceline can do this voluntarily and to great effect. In "Henchman", she just does it for the reaction on Jake's face, as he is still afraid of vampires. The ''Adventure Time'' Team's portion of the Frederator blog has a small collection of the faces she made [[http://frederatorblogs.com/adventure_time/2010/08/18/its-more-marceline/ throughout the episode.]]
329* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: She was already a [[HalfHumanHybrid demon/human hybrid]] before becoming a vampire.
330* NobleDemon:
331** Noted by Finn in her second episode, she releases him from being her minion as it's "not as fun when they realize it."
332** She and Lumpy Space Princess raise havoc in Breakfast Princess' place, stealing her things, vandalizing the castle, and assaulting the guards, but they do draw the line at killing them, being visibly relieved when the guy they pushed through a high improvised window landed in something soft.
333* TheNoseless: Like the other humanoids. Though she can [[SuddenAnatomy morph a nose]] when she wants to smell something or pick it. This carries over to the Farmworld, where she appears to be the only denizen without one.
334* NotADate: Goes to watch a movie with Finn in "Go With Me", with both insisting it's not a date.
335* NotSoStoic: Under her cool and trickster-like demeanor lies a sensitive girl who will cry easily if the right buttons are pushed. [[BloodLust (Pissing her off is still a no-no.)]]
336* OddFriendship: With [[TheHero Finn]], which doubles as an extreme form of an IntergenerationalFriendship. Later on, she's befriended Jake (though she likes to scare him) and appears to have had one with Bubblegum in the past, though Finn seems to have helped her and Bubblegum patch things up.
337* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:With Princess Bubblegum as of "Come Along with Me".]]
338* OneWingedAngel: She often employs this in a serious fight (or when she's trying to scare people), and one of the most memorable is a giant, bat-like creature.
339** [[spoiler: In the finale, when she briefly thinks that Bubblegum was killed, she takes on the Vampire King's giant cloud ram form]].
340* OurDemonsAreDifferent: She is a half-demon, with the demon half from her father's side. Apparently, it's responsible for her unique anatomy, such as the white skin, the fangs, and the pointy ears, since she only became a vampire when she was a teenager, and young Marceline already had said traits. [[DarkIsNotEvil It also doesn't influence her morality much]].
341* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Marceline claims that she sometimes drinks blood, but only because it's red, and she mainly "eats" shades of red, and sleeps in a normal bed instead of a coffin. Other vampires ''could'' just eat red, but they didn't want to [[spoiler:which is why she killed them before even becoming a vampire herself]]. Sunlight and garlic aren't instantly fatal, but they still hurt like a mother. As long as she takes precautions not to be struck directly by sunlight (generally by wearing a sunhat or, more often, a parasol), she can be active at any time of day. All of her abilities come from vampirism except the soul-sucking power that lets her absorb those powers from other vampires. There's also the fact that she was a HalfHumanHybrid with her dad being a demon, being that being a cambion vampire makes her unique.
342* OutOfFocus: Does not receive as much screen time in season 6 compared to previous seasons, having only one episode featured on her ("Princess Day") along with a couple of minor appearances. Previous seasons feature her at least twice per season. Season 7 reversed this and gave her much more screen time including the eight-part miniseries ''Stakes''.
343* OverlyLongTongue: Either when she's shapeshifting or not, Marceline has a pretty long tongue, probably most evident by her little counterpart in ''All the little people'', where her tongue is almost as long as Peppermint Butler's entire body.
344* ThePerformerKing: Marceline is often referenced as "Marceline the Vampire Queen" and is usually found writing songs and performing them publicly on her bass. While [[spoiler: she is no queen to vampires (having exterminated all of the other vampires centuries prior)]], her father is the Ruler of the Nightosphere, so the trope still technically applies.
345* ThePigPen: She generally couldn't care less about her personal hygiene, picking her nose, not washing her hands after using the bathroom, and commenting that her armpits stink.
346* PointyEars: Comes from being half-demon, assuming her father is an appropriate representation of demons.
347* TheQuincyPunk: Slightly; she's a wild and reckless sort of person, but Ooo in general doesn't seem to find her particularly dangerous. She seems to like the aesthetic more than anything.
348* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She's an immortal half-demon vampire who is a thousand years old at the start of the series, with her childhood (where she was just half-demon) taking place during the [[AfterTheEnd events of the Mushroom War]].
349* RedEyesTakeWarning: Does this when she gets upset. Usually an extremely bad sign for whomever made her upset.
350* SadClown: Unfortunately she sings from the soul and gets upset when she notices she's let her defenses down.
351-->'''Marceline''': How can- anyone relate to me? When they cannot see what I see- My vampire eyes see... only blood red- skies. Blood-red skies make tears inside that I always hide.
352* SenseFreak: [[spoiler: When she briefly became mortal again, she gorged herself on non-red food]].
353* SoleSurvivor: For much of the show, Marceline could be considered the last remaining member of Pre-Mushroom War Humanity, or at least the only one left who remembers anything about them. This becomes Averted [[spoiler: once Simon is freed from the Crown and other Pre-Mushroom War humans like Betty and Patience come to Ooo or are revived.]]
354* SourOutsideSadInside: She drives people away out of fear of being abandoned and betrayed again.
355* SpearCounterpart: Marshall Lee. However, because his only characterization came from when ''Marceline'' was telling a Fionna and Cake story - that is, she's describing him and how he would act - he ends up coming off to the viewer as a self-deprecating parody of her.
356* SuddenAnatomy: In "Marceline's Closet," she grows a pair of bat-like nostrils when trying to sniff out Finn and Jake.
357* SuperpowerLottery: She has an enormous list of supernatural abilities. Though, it wasn't so much a lottery, as she had to earn every single one of her various vampiric powers.
358* TankTopTomboy: Over half her costumes have involved tank tops, and she has all the tomboy characteristics.
359* {{Telekinesis}}: Briefly uses some on Finn in "Henchman", curling his arms so he can't interfere with her pranking. It's unclear if it's a demon or vampire power, but the affected object glows red.
360* TenderTomboyishnessFoulFemininity: She's a vampire rock star who acts like a gentle CoolBigSis towards Finn and Jake while Princess Bubblegum, the pink-haired monarch of the Candy Kingdom, frequently threatens people with violence.
361* TentacledTerror: She has the ability to turn into a giant tentacle monster. She did it in order to dissuade Finn from [[BetterAsFriends asking her out]] before realizing that he wasn't interested in a date.
362* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Princess Bubblegum's Girly Girl.
363* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She does wear dresses and fairly pretty blouses on occasion.
364* TookALevelInKindness: While she started out as an antagonistic {{Troll}}, Marceline would become notably more considerate and friendly over time. She would later show genuine concern and even go out of her way to save Finn, Jake, and Bubblegum in a few situations.
365* {{Troll}}: Finds a lot of joy in screwing with people in general and Finn in particular, though she seems to draw her limits at actual physical harm, [[CharacterizationMarchesOn at least lately.]]
366* {{Tsundere}}: Shows quite a few signs of being one to her friends in general, and very strongly suggested to be one in "What Was Missing".
367%%%* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter:
368* TheUndead: She ''is'' a vampire, after all.
369* UnlimitedWardrobe: ''How'' many outfits has she worn now? Notably, since she had a different outfit for each of her appearances, she was the first character to avert LimitedWardrobe. Considering that she's over a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld thousand years old]], it's probably not that weird to see her having many clothes.
370* UnscrupulousHero: She sometimes saves the day only because she wants to, and screwing with an evil person like herself is more fun than screwing mortals over.
371* VampireHickey: Marceline has two noticeable bite marks on her neck, giving the indication that she was turned sometime in the past. The ''Stakes'' mini-series eventually reveals in a flashback, to when she was just a common cambrion half-demon (human mother, demon father), that this was from the vampire king who bit and turned her just as she was staking him. In the present day of the story, when she regains the last of his vampire power, the vampire essence puts the marks back on her neck as she's absorbing the power.
372* VampireHunter: [[spoiler:She used to hunt vampires to keep her human friend (later friends) safe. She personally would have wiped them out if not for the last one turning her as he died.]]
373* VampireMonarch: Specifically, she's the Vampire Queen. There aren't any other vampires left ''to'' rule over (she refuses to turn anyone as she rarely drinks blood, instead getting by draining out the color red from objects), but her presence at the meeting of Ooo royalty suggests that her position is at least somewhat meaningful.
374* VegetarianVampire: She'll drink blood if she's desperate, but she mostly just drains the color from red objects. Sometimes the objects are fine afterward, sometimes they seem shriveled up.
375* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: [[spoiler:Thinking GOLB's abomination murdered Bubblegum, she cries her name before turning into Vampire King's cloudy form and nearly tearing it to shreds.]]
376* VisualPun: Her bass is an ''axe''.
377* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Has a habit of going from her cute normal form to very grotesque monster forms and back again at the drop of a hat. Her second episode really plays this up.
378* WeakenedByTheLight: Though, oddly, only by ''direct'' sunlight. She'd be just fine on a sunny day with as little as a large hat or parasol, though she does mention that it is painful in a very minor way. It appears to burn quite severely - barely a second's exposure results in a bunch of painful-looking boils (that she can heal away, but still).
379* WellDoneDaughterGirl: She wishes for the approval and attention of her neglectful father, as she isn't secure if he even loves her. He does, but is not good at showing it.
380* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Marceline has occasionally griped about this, with this serving as the catalyst for the ''Stakes'' miniseries. However, her big complaint is less about being long-lived and more about the eternal youth, as her vampire nature has trapped her in a state of arrested development, mentally unable to truly mature as a person due to being physically in her late teens forever.
381-->'''Marceline:''' ''(singing)'' They don't know what it's like to live forever and forget who they even are...
382* WoundThatWillNotHeal: She has two bite marks on her neck from the bite that turned her. [[spoiler:They go away when her vampirism is removed.]]
383* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: She became the Vampire Queen by killing the Vampire King.
384* YourSoulIsMine: She inherited the ability to suck out a person's soul from her father. Besides a longer lifespan, she's said it's the only special ability she has from being half-demon.
385[[/folder]]
386
387[[folder:Ice King]]
388!!Simon Petrikov/Ice King
389[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ice_King_6609.png]]
390[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here to see him as Simon Petrikov.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/simonpetrikov_at.png[[/labelnote]]]]
391->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnKassir (2006 pilot), Creator/TomKenny (the series)
392
393An unruly monarch from the Ice Kingdom. Once a close friend or even a father figure of Marceline's, he's spent years pestering her. She says that she tolerates his presence because she loves him unconditionally, and remains one of the few characters to bestow compassion upon him to date. In truth, these are but the remnants of a pre-apocalypse professor of archaeology and antique enthusiast once named Simon Petrikov, before he was driven insane and transformed by the arcane forces of ice and snow within a crown he bought. The subsequent bouts of madness estranged him from his beloved fiance, Betty, and his nickname for her, "princess", was warped by time and insanity into his compulsion to kidnap and marry princesses in the present-day Land of Ooo.
394----
395See his page [[Characters/AdventureTimeIceKing here.]]
396[[/folder]]
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